On 9 December 2016 the EU presidency and the EU Parliament agreed on the final version of the new Shareholders Rights Directive (SRD). BETTER FINANCE welcomes the completion of the ... Read More
A revamped platform facilitating proxy voting now comprises over 1500 European companies. The financial crisis of 2008 revealed significant deficiencies in corporate governance, partly due to a lack of shareholder ... Read More
At last year’s Annual General Assembly of Iberdrola, Adicae - one of BETTER FINANCE’s Spanish member organisations - denounced the behaviour of the company’s Board of Directors with regard to ... Read More
The German investor association DSW, a member organisation of BETTER FINANCE, is examining the possibility of legal proceedings in Germany on the grounds that VW violated its duty to immediately ... Read More
Representing VW shareholders, DSW, a member organization of BETTER FINANCE, is examining the possibility of legal proceedings on the grounds that VW violated its duty to immediately disclose all information ... Read More
The new EU Shareholders Rights’ Directive is to be voted tomorrow 8 July. As it stands the proposal grossly ignores all the modest amendments called for by European individual shareholder ... Read More
BETTER FINANCE's press release on the plenary vote of the new EU Shareholders Rights’ Directive, as amended by the Parliament’s JURI committee, on June 10 is available here ... Read More
The European Commission’s review of the shareholders rights directive is a good step forward, but, if not amended and improved upon by the European Parliament, will fail to fix the ... Read More